The First Journal Entry
This is my first blog. At the age of 65, I am a virgin blogger. This is also my new website for my new business, which is about celebrating getting older.
The day after I hit my 60th birthday a leaflet came in the post giving me a discount on a Stannah Stairlift. Looking back it could, I suppose, have been coincidence but unlikely. They probably send them out regularly to all 60 year olds from electoral roll information. I know it made me depressed.
Not that I have anything against stair-lifts. What saddened me was the assumption that I was now so old I probably needed mechanical help to get me from one floor to the next, an assumption that was doubly wrong because I lived in a bungalow at the time.
Over the following months I began to feel aches in my joints, walk more slowly and generally act as though this was the beginning of the end. Except it wasn’t. It gradually dawned on me that how I approached ageing was down to me, how fit I kept myself, how brave I was, what I decided to do with the rest of my life, what I expected of myself.
You see inside my head I have always been 32. If I acknowledged that age – what difference would it make to the way I approached being 61?
My coaching and recruitment experience has taught me that individuals can change the way they think, the way they present themselves and the way they look at life every day. The only caveat is that he or she has to be prepared to put the work in to achieve. It won’t happen if nothing changes.
So that’s what I am trying to do. I’m a living, walking one-woman experiment to see if I can achieve living the life I want to live. In the last three years the magic has worked. It can work for you too.
This is my first blog on the first day of my first website. So far so good.
Hey, I'm back!
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Being older is not about inevitable aches and pains, losing status in society, becoming invisible, being lonely and giving up.
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